1.6 miles away
Agua Caliente
A place in Maricopa County north of the Gila River, named in 1744 for hot springs that later carried a resort.
Camp Hyder
A Desert Training Center subcamp south of Hyder, built in August 1942 and closed in May 1944, where two infantry divisions trained.
- Rank in Arizona
- #274of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 42.7 out of 100medium confidence
- Most looked up
- Aprilby Wikipedia readers
- Category
- Historic Site
Camp Hyder was a United States Army installation in Arizona, 2 miles south of Hyder and just north of the Gila River, 60 miles east of Yuma and near Camp Horn. It was a subcamp of the Desert Training Center, whose main headquarters was Camp Young in Riverside County, California; the centre was established to prepare troops for fighting in North Africa during the Second World War. The camp was built in August 1942 by the 369th Engineer Regiment, on the site of an 1890s military base. When complete it had shower buildings, latrines, an outdoor theatre, wooden tent frames, two 10,000-gallon water storage tanks and a water treatment plant, and it held firing ranges for .30- and .50-calibre machine guns and for artillery, as well as instruction in anti-tank mines. Unlike the other camps, it saw no large tank activity. It had its own rail station, at which most troops arrived, and the station at Sentinel to the south was also used. The 77th Infantry Division trained there from April to September 1943, followed by the 104th Infantry Division; more than 13,000 troops were trained at Camp Horn and Camp Hyder. The camp closed in May 1944.
Where it is
Camp Hyder is a historic site near Dateland, in Yuma County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Camp Hyder, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Gillespie Dam Bridge
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Dateland
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 42.7 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 24.4
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.0048, -113.3401
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12